Kingdom Death Monster: Settlement 1 - Episode 1

The First Showdown

Time to fight the White Lion. The AI attacks tell you the process of picking a target—closest threat facing and in range, or closest threat in field of view.

Side note: I thought about getting pimped out dice, but the font on the included dice is really cool. Rolling with them.

Combat Mechanics Learned

Monster Attacks

• Speed is how many dice the monster rolls (not movement)
• Each hit triggers a hit location roll
• Taking damage to the head immediately knocks you down (I’m using Warmachine knockdown tokens—no way I’m laying these models on their side)

Survivor Attacks

Each survivor can use different attack profiles:

• Founding Stone - Lower accuracy requirement but meant to be thrown once
• Fist and Tooth - Higher accuracy needed (8+) but is Deadly, giving better crit chances

The Critical Wound System

Sophia went for the Fist and Tooth attack, rolling two dice looking for 8+. She got a 9—a critical wound!

The hit location card showed a reaction, but because it was a critical wound, we cancel the reaction. The result: we hacked off the monster’s hand! I could spend one survival to gain permanent +1 strength.

This stays in play as a permanent wound. Very cool mechanic.

The Reality of Kingdom Death

Poor Tmicus got mauled. After taking hits to both arms and needing to roll on the severe injury table… he rolled a one.

You die of shock. Your vision fades along with the sight of your mangled, armless torso.

Wow. That’s savage. You don’t want to roll ones on injury tables.

The Turning Point

With no AI cards left, we just needed to survive one more basic attack. Sophia took hits—one to the head triggering an injury roll.

A nine: Shattered Jaw. She can no longer consume or encourage. Permanent injury. Plus a bleeding token.

But she stood back up, took out her stone, and rolled the final wound. The lion is dead.

Final Thoughts

That felt awesome. The fight was actually pretty quick—probably would have been 15 minutes if I knew what I was doing.

Very meaningful to actually hit the lion. It’s pretty hard to hit and do damage.

Our hero Sophia the Strong now has +1 permanent strength but no jaw. I think that’s really cool character development through pure gameplay.

Resources Gained:

• Four White Lion specific resources
• Four basic resources (monster hide, monster bone)
• One new survivor to replace Tmicus

I’m hooked already. Time to learn about the settlement phase.